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Photo report: A look at the new Erfurt branch of Macoo LLC

"Growth opportunities in the region of Thuringian are very good"

Macoo LLC is on an expansion course even in times of the pandemic: The East German wholesale chain with headquarters in Dresden moved into a brand new business location in the…

New Covent Garden Market

Gary Marshall - New Covent Garden Trader's Association

“Despite having a very tough time traders are supporting the NHS and hospitals with donations of fresh produce"

It has been a very tough year for fresh produce market traders almost 12 months of lockdowns or partial lockdowns, has meant that the biggest part of their market has been…

Strawberry crop increase in Basilicata

The almost 1000 hectares of strawberries in Basilicata are the emblem of a region that continues to invest on a crop that is getting increasingly specialized. However, there…

Dirk Jan van Dijk, Palm Fruits, the Netherlands

“We keep supplying dates, no matter what”

A ‘one-stop-shop’ for dates. That's how Dirk Jan van Dijk describes his business, Palm Fruits, in the Netherlands. "We have something for everyone - different qualities,…

Quico Peiró, Operations Director Grupo Cañamás

"This second part of the citrus campaign is radically different from the first"

The first part of the citrus campaign has been characterized by the great volume available, although with small sizes and a lot of discards in the case of the Navelina and…

Online platform An-Ja offers consumers the right potato

"We want to add a little more value to the humble potato dish"

Since time immemorial, the potato shelf has offered a choice between firm-cooking, mainly firm-cooking and floury-cooking tubers. But the choice of varieties has increased…

Willem Nowee, Varekamp Coldstores Holland:

"Proud of great growth after intensive and exciting years"

After 26 years of being part of a parent organization, Varekamp Coldstores Holland from Westland has been on its own two feet again since 2019. "It was two intensive but also…

Fresh Publishers turns 25

A room in the attic and a plan to publish a book for the Dutch fruit and vegetable trading sector. That's how, on 1 February 1996, Boekhout Publishers' adventure began.…

Carlos Masiá: "The reduction in the acreage devoted to strawberries in Huelva is, unfortunately, a reality"

"We are pioneers in marketing 100% of our own varieties"

In January, there usually starts to be a significant supply of strawberries in Huelva, although this year has started with bad weather and the cold slowing down the…

Replacing rigid crates with collapsable ones cuts 20,000 truck trips

Fruit and vegetable transportation to be made more sustainable

Things are changing in the packaging world. Euro Pool System (EPS) is replacing its rigid crates with folding ones. This Dutch company focuses on reusable packaging in the…

Special Asia

Hainan longans stay fresher than imported Thai longan

Fresh longans easily spoil after they are harvested. They quickly develop enzymes that turn the fruit brown. In order to keep the fruit fresh and extend its shelf life, they…

Global Focus Organics

New line of sustainable packaging for Fair Trade organic grower

Wholesum, Fair Trade certified growers and shippers of organic produce, launched a new sustainable packaging line of vegetables that will hit retail shelves this month. The…

Los Gallombares will have one million more kilos this year with the incorporation of Agrolachar

Granada's asparagus harvest delayed by around 20 days

The green asparagus harvest has been delayed by around 20 days this year as a result of the storms and frosts recorded in much of Spain in the first two weeks of January. "At…

Fruit and veg forwarder Konstantin Popov founds online platform Dako Log

"For 2021, our credo will still be: Observe, analyse, act"

Due to lockdowns and more difficult general conditions, the logistics sector is also currently struggling. This also applies to PS Food Logistics, a specialist in fruit and…

Beni Dürr (Verdunova AG) on the modernisation of the vegetable freezing installation

"With our new flowfreezer, we are expanding our production capacity by 30 tonnes per day"

Exactly twenty years ago, Swiss entrepreneur Beni Dürr brought a very inexpensive flowfreezer to what was then Czechoslovakia, which, although almost new, was suddenly made…

Paul Heemels, Heemels Agro, the Netherlands

“Cooking shows are making celeriac more popular”

These days, celeriac is sold year-round. You can begin harvesting these in the summer, but this root vegetable sells especially well in the winter. “The colder the weather,…

In Belgium, Lidl and Plastinet Flexibles' efforts to reduce plastic is paying off

At the beginning of 2020, Lidl and Plastinet Flexibles began a project in Belgium. They wanted to see how they could reduce plastic waste in the store's fruit and vegetable…

Scott announces multi-million contract from the Alliance group

Following on from the previously announced lamb automation system, Scott has been awarded a second large contract by Alliance Group, this one to design and build a carton…

The first Dutch cucumbers at Valstar

This morning our first Dutch cucumbers of the season were harvested at Valstar. "This means that - from today - our first cucumbers from traditional cultivation will be…

"The solution lies not in less but in better packaging"

"The packaging industry is under pressure to change the negative image of plastics and packaging into a positive one. After all, packaging was created to get food to the…

'Yuzu fruit, avant garde seasonal eating and medjoul dates'

New Covent Garden Market predicts fruit and vegetable trends for 2021

New Covent Garden Market, from which more than 100 wholesale traders supply fresh fruit and vegetables to London’s restaurants, has predicted that yuzu fruit,…

Price spread of Spanish and Turkish oranges narrowing in 2021

The Mintec price of Spanish oranges declined by 35% to EUR 0.7/kg in the 4 months to 13th January. The price drop can be attributed to an increase in orange…

Bonduelle: First half Year 2020-2021 financial results

The Bonduelle Group's revenue stands for the 1st half of financial year 2020-2021 at € 1,441.5 million, stable at -0.1% on reported figures and an increase of…

Danish cabbage area increased by 25 per cent

According to figures from Landbrugsstyrelsen (the Danish Agricultural Agency), the number of hectares of cabbage cultivation increased by about 25 percent from…

Seasonal laborers are Norwegian farmers' main COVID-19 headache

The Norwegian insurance company, Frende Forsikring, commissioned Sentio to do a survey. Its results show that Norwegian growers are most concerned about…

European agricultural production will decrease by 56.13 million tons by 2030

The EU-27 has 156.7 million hectares devoted to agriculture. In 2019, nearly 12.5 million hectares, i.e. about 8% of the total area, were devoted to organic…

Researchers discover the double water absorption mechanism of a desert plant's leaves

Researchers from the La Mayora Institute of Subtropical and Mediterranean Horticulture, in Algarrobo (Málaga), the University of Harvard (USA), and the Center…

The EC increases the budget to promote the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables to € 19.1 million in 2022

The European Commission has published the calls for the presentation of programs to promote European agricultural products in the EU and in the world, which…

Russia: Retailers may offer 'economy-class' tubers and cucumbers

In a letter to the Association of Retail Companies (AKORT) and the Union of Independent Networks (SNS), the Potato Union of Russia proposed introducing…

Huelva strawberries and raspberries reach higher prices than in the two previous seasons

According to a new report on the 2020/2021 berry campaign in Huelva from the Prices Observatory of the Government of Andalusia, despite the fact that…

EastFruit

Fruit and vegetable exports Turkey increased by 21% in 2020

The Union of Exporters of the Mediterranean Region of Turkey states that the total volume of export operations in this industry last year increased by 21% compared to 2019,…

Extensive cooperation between Bardini+Keller and Verdeimport

Synergy between Latin American relations and European distribution network

To kick off the year, the two Swiss fruit and vegetable specialists bardini+keller ag and Verdeimport AG announce their new alliance. In future, synergies…

A single kiwi provides the recommended daily intake of vitamin C

Kiwis have 92.17 milligrams of vitamin C per 100 grams, i.e. nearly twice as much as oranges. "Consuming a single piece provides 116% of the recommended daily…

Ukrainian berry producer gets ready for blackberry exports

BerryMore Active is the largest berry plantation in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. Currently, it plans not only to sell blackberries in Ukraine, but is…

The UK opens up to citrus exporters

According to an analysis of the 2020 southern countries' citrus campaign by the Top Info website, which specializes in fruit markets, last year's campaign…

The new Yvyrá apple continues to surprise due to its low demand for winter cold

Since its launch onto the plant market in 2018, ‘GVU Yvyrá’ has been surprising its own creators, due to its rusticity and a harvest date that is increasingly earlier in the…

Francois Rossouw - Mooigezicht Estates

Chinese market has South African grape growers on the edge of their seats

The Hex River harvest started unusually late, by ten to fourteen days, which cut into their window to market grapes to China (fortunately Chinese New Year is late this year).…

Average weekly wholesale prices of fruit and veg & bananas

UK average prices of Bramley's seedling apples at £1.11 / kg

This series gives the average wholesale prices of bananas by country of origin. The prices are national averages of the most usual prices charged for bananas at wholesale…

Heavy rains in Chile damage grape crop and more

Just as Chile’s grape season is starting to ramp up – with volumes strengthening these past two weeks – heavy rains have hit all the growing regions in the country. Mike…

California storms could tighten strawberries for Valentine’s Day

The rainstorms over California this week may throw a wrench into supplies of strawberries for Valentine’s Day. “I fear California may not rebound for a few weeks if this rain…

Second ASOEX Report: "There will be a lower production and export volume"

The effects of the intense rains in the Chilean fruit sector are getting worse

The intense rains registered in the central and southern areas of the country, which in some cases included hail, have had serious consequences on seasonal fruit crops, such…

Fresh fruit importer and exporter sees 100% growth during 2020

Salix Fruits, importer and exporter of fresh fruits, closed its 2020 balance shipping more than 40,000 pallets of fruit, which implied a 100% growth and an increase in the…

Canadian breaks World Record by eating three Carolina reapers in under 10 seconds

A Canadian with a love for spicy food broke a Guinness World Record by eating three Carolina reaper chili peppers in under 10 seconds. A video was shared of…

Why mandarin oranges are handed out at Chinese New Year

With the Chinese New Year coming up, invariably oranges will be given as gifts between families, friends and even among companies. There are four types of…

Egypt: Agri exports to Gulf states via Safaga Port up 33 percent

Sea freight traffic between the ports of Safaga on the Red Sea and Dhiba in Saudi Arabia saw an increase in volume, while the average number of trucks leaving…

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